Chaucer: An Oxford Guide.(Book review) From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Chaucer:. An Oxford Guide, ed. Steve Ellis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). xxiv + 644 pp. ISBN 0-19-925912-7. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. Long in the making, distinguished in its contributors and its variety of subject matter, this volume is an impressive addition to the Oxford Guides Series and to the many Companion-style volumes already published on Chaucer. It focuses, sometimes debatably, on Chaucer for our time: the hope of the editor is 'to present a Chaucer who is anything but boring and irrelevant to present concerns' (p. 1). Thus much emphasis is placed on ...

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